Oh man, talk about good timing. Today marks the release of both Dragon Ball FighterZ and Monster Hunter: World on PlayStation 4, but guess what? The bloody PlayStation Network's buggered!
At the time of writing we can't get online -- we get the old "under maintenance" message -- and our social media feeds are currently being flooded with reports of the Network being down. Safe to say it's quite widespread, although there's been no word from Sony yet.
As always we'll keep you updated. Here's hoping that it's just a slight hiccup.
Update: Sony says it's aware of users experiencing issues when logging into the PSN and it's currently investigating.
Update #2: The PSN seems to be back up and running in most cases. Phew.
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GG Sony
I was playing MH for about an hour this morning then it went out = /
You think after the Ps Plus increase you'd think they'd use the extra money to stop problems like this.
Sorry for double post all my digital games have a lock on them and I can't play them, never had this before .
i played offline by myself on this game. you guys don't need to worry about online to play with friends on this game if you really want play it instead waiting for PSN server working again
Noticed this just now when I went to sync my trophies. Rather irritating.
Lovely... 😑
Can't play bf1 online because of this game release ? Will it take 4 ever for those who experienced this before ?
Too many people playing MHW and it crashed even SONY's servers.
Well let's play some single player games instead.
@WanderingBullet thx 4 your reply , sad i am . Well managed psn
Luckily I'm playing MH World offline.
Was hoping to give DBFighterZ a go though... .
Poor timing but as long as I can still play solo, which is how I planned on playing MH anyway, this won't be too much of a problem for me. Feel bad for the people who want to play online though.
@Fight_Teza_Fight Oh, I forgot you could play MHW offline. Too late to try that, it's already 1.35am here.
Sry but it's kinda enraging but That's just me playing ps4 for online games ?. I used 2 play offline back in the 90's
Guess I should have seen this coming. Sony really need to improve this, they put the price up, and now the service isn't as good. You know the huge amount of profit you're making on PS+, how about using some of it to improve the online infrastructure?
My plus ran out last week and I'm fed up with the poor online service. I'll only buy games I want and not fill up my hdd with stuff that looks OK that I'll never play. Can't believe how crap psn is compared to xbl. I've been a plus subber since I jumped ship to the ps4 at launch but now I've had enough.
@WanderingBullet That sucks. I tried it this morning works pretty seamlessly. 6 pm here and I just finished work. Going to hunt the night away as a total MH Newbie .
Just made up my mind to download monster hunter, so of course this happened.
@Bread-Not-Toast you need to restore the licences also make sure you have your PS4 set as your primary one in order to stop it happening again
but you can't do it while PSN is down
@Bread-Not-Toast normally you just need Internet connection. Mine is the same my brothers is my primary any my games work on it
You know what I hate most about these type of things? It brings all the moaners out of the woodwork who just like to vent. Also the Plus profits don't necessarily go into the upkeep of the network, chances are it's used to bring in so called "AAA games" onto the service because these same people moaned about "too many indies" my advice? Chill out and see it as an opportunity to play something that's not online required like I will be with Yakuza 0 (I know I'm a genius)
Those linear story games are looking pretty good now huh? lol I always make sure to have a few single player (Non-Online dependent) games with tasks left to complete for these special occasions. I'm currently enjoying Assassin's Creed Origins so personally, i'm not too bothered.
@YummyHappyPills It's only €60 a year, what else did you expect?
Lol I can't believe this was caused by MH! Could there be so many buyers? Well maybe Dragon Ball helped
@adf86 being mostly RP-dependant, I can't play single player on PS4 when the network's down either (granted, this blackout makes no difference since internet troubles on the local end have walled me off for a good month anyway), but a good point overall.
@nhSnork Has your ISP blocked your devices as well? Mine allows Sony devices to connect, but not Nintendo devices...smh.
@nhSnork Obviously I'm fighting them on this as it's detrimental to my only potential source of income, but I might just end up needing to switch ISP's so I can continue reviewing Nintendo games plus the Wii U browser "which I can't use due to my system being blocked" is WAY more functional than other gaming browsers due to its still ahead-of-its-time HTML5 support. Pretty much anything HTML related runs better on the Wii U browser than any other console-based or mobile browsers out there...
PSN has been wonky for me this week. It says I'm offline even when I'm clearly not, notifications only pop up when the console starts back up, and it's been loading everything slowly in general. I rarely have issues too (and almost never on PS4), so I'm wondering what's up. It's probably something with the system itself rather than PSN, but this started after it underwent maintenance, so maybe it has something to do with PSN.
Sony has by far the worst online infrastructure, even worse than Nintendo. (Microsoft has the best.) Difference is Sony wants 60 EUR/a, Nintendo nothing right now and only 20 EUR/a later. And how many times has PSN gotten hacked? It's embarrassing really.
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